About

The VAFP site was funded as part of a 2005 Institute for Museum and
Library Services (IMLS) grant to the www.folkstreams.net project.
Our purpose is to supplement already existing Film Preservation
Guides (http://www.filmpreservation.org/) with video
demonstrations. These preservation guides, while excellent and
thorough, are mostly text. Handling film is like working with a
sewing machine. Basic activities like splicing, rewinding,
cleaning, and repairing are best demonstrated by moving images.

The site is set up as a dynamic database of video clips that can
build over time. The clips can be streamed in Real and Mpeg 4 or be
downloaded in Mpeg 4 files. The films and clips are under the rules
of Creative Commons which allows anyone to use these clips with
attribution --in this case, attribution to the VAFP site and to the
author of the clip and his company.

The project is directed by the filmmaker Tom Davenport
(www.davenportfilms.com) and this web site was designed by Steve
Knoblock who developed the code that runs www.folkstreams.net. Video
streaming is provided by www.ibiblio.org at the University of
North Carolina. The clips are provided by contributors –
skilled craftpersons working in film preservation.